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-TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MAYER, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented ua new and useful Improvement in Boots and Shoes and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference beingA had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of this specification, in whieh- Figure 1 is a side view of a boot having my improvement applied thereto; and

Figure 2, a transverse section ofvthe'same on the dotted line :v 1/ of iig. 1; like letters of reference indieating the same parts when in both figures. i

The object of my improvement is to eifectually preclude the entrance of water between theiupper and.

the solef or between the upper and tlie welt of a bootor shoe', and my invention consists, substantially as hereinafter described and set forth, in making and applying the.insole of a boot or shoe so that its edges. shall extend upward around the inside of the front and two sides of a boot or shoe, sufficiently high to-preclude vthe entrance of 'water into the boot or shoe through the joint formed between the upper and. the welt,"

and also, in the application of a narrow band of leather, or its equivalent material, aroundbetween the outside sole and the upper, at the sides and front or toe of a boot or shoe, so as to prevent the entrance of water between them.

In the drawings, A is the upper; B the outside sole; C the insole; D the usual slip-sole; E, the welt, and

lF the'band. The insole C is cut in one piece, and of such a forni as willl cause it to extend upward a little above the dotted line a of the forward half of the boot or shoe, (see fig. '1.) f It is then wetted and applied to the last, its extreme upper edges being chamfered off thin, as shown in fig. 2. The upper A is then applied over the last and insolc'in the usual manner. I now prepare the welt E and sew it fast` to the upper A and insole C in the usual manner, and then apply the lusual slip-sole D and the outside sole B, and shape-their edges in the manner usual, and preparatory to sewing them together. `I now prepare the narrow band F, apply it as represented inthe drawings', and sew it and the welt E, with the sole B, by a single line of stitches, in the usual manner. Inow withdraw the last and then secure the thin upper edge of the insole C'Ato'the upperA by stitching through both from outside to inside, and from inside to outside alternately, as indicated by the dotted line a in iig. 1, and finally I then in like manner stitch the upper edge of the band F fast t0 the upper A and insole C, as-indicated by the dotted line b in iig'. 1. (See also fig. 2.) It will therefore be readily seen that it will be impossible for water to reach the foot of theiwearer by leaking into the boot or shoe between the upper andthe welt, because the raised edges of the insole will be a perfect defence, and that the band F will be an additional defence, because it covers closely the usual joint between the edge of the outside sole and the upperfk i Having thus fullyI described my improvement, what claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is confined to the following, viz: I

1. I claim extending the side and front edges of the insole of a boot or shoe upward around the inner side of the upper, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. I also claim the application of the band F over the joint formed between and by the upper and the outside sole of a boot or shoe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDWARDv MAYER.

Witnesses BENJ. Morrison,

L. STRAUS. 

